Patents by Inventor Saundra V. Bass

Saundra V. Bass has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Communications system call complete arrangement
    Patent number: 5835568
    Abstract: A facility is disposed in a telecommunications network to provide an alternative to retrying the placing of a call to a telephone station when a busy signal is encountered. More particularly, if a subscriber places a telephone call to a called station set that is busy with another telephone call, then the facility notes that fact and terminates the subscriber's telephone call. Thereafter, the facility places a telephone call to the called station and, when the call is answered, announces at least the calling subscriber's telephone number and allows the called party to optionally extend the call back to the original calling subscriber. If the call is not answered, then the call back is terminated, and the placement of another call to the called station is rescheduled for a subsequent time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: AT & T Corp
    Inventors: Saundra V. Bass, Donald LeRoy Blosser, Andre K. Crump, David Bruce Kerr, Frank Carl LaPorta, Ted Michael Ricci, William Henry Stenger, Sr.
  • Communications system call complete arrangement
    Patent number: 5533100
    Abstract: A facility is disposed in a telecommunications network to provide an alternative to retrying the placing of a call to a telephone station when a busy signal is encountered. More particularly, if a subscriber places a telephone call to a called station set that is busy with another telephone call, then the facility notes that fact and terminates the subscriber's telephone call. Thereafter, the facility places a telephone call to the called station and, when the call is answered, announces at least the calling subscriber's telephone number and allows the called party to optionally extend the call back to the original calling subscriber. If the call is not answered, then the call back is terminated, and the placement of another call to the called station is rescheduled for a subsequent time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Saundra V. Bass, Donald L. Blosser, Andre K. Crump, David B. Kerr, Frank C. LaPorta, Ted M. Ricci, William H. Stenger, Sr.